On Sun, 27 May 2018 12:55:02 +0900
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 May 2018 22:37:13 +0100 Al Poole <[email protected]> said:
> 
> > Hi raster,
> > 
> > The commit:
> > 
> > 757f7a7279e97e80ccb4defa986c174daaf9449e
> > 
> > Breaks module loading on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Lots of unresolved symbols when loading modules: E initialzation
> > loops forever.
> > 
> > I thought about reverting but perhaps you have the time to
> > investigate the issue there?  
> 
> oh really? it worked perfectly on linux... why would it break on bsd.
> RTLD_LOCAL according to the man pages doesn't make symbols available
> globally (so regular sym lookups wont find those symbols in the
> global table - they must be dlsym()'d from the module handle). the
> man page here says:
> 
>        RTLD_LOCAL
>               This is the converse of RTLD_GLOBAL, and the default
> if  neither flag  is  specified.   Symbols defined in this shared
> object are not made available to resolve references in subsequently
> loaded shared objects.
> 
> right now i'm chasing an efl break that destroys compositing in e
> after a little time (open a few windows, switch desktops) where all
> my windows become garbage. something between
> ea1760380e34074d9e6b9633a54a4f9c27e64aec and
> 75bb7c049f05176aef635bddcfb320c306b196bf.

I have the same issue. bisect doesn't work well on Cedric 121 patches. Sucks. 
Anyway, I opened a ticket (T6970).

> 
> in the meantime could you look into why freeebsd is different here?
> it sounds like it's interpreting RTLD_LOCAL to not resolve symbols
> within the module using the global context which is not what the
> above says... what symbols are not looking up? stuff in e? like e_*
> ones? i am guessing that it's these.


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